Spectacular show for Filmfare Awards ’05

• The much hyped Filmfare Awards, now in its 50th year, were held on Saturday in Mumbai and Biz Asiahas all the latest from the night.

As expected ShahRukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee walked away with two of the show’s top gongs for their performances in Swades and Hum Tum respectively. ShahRukh won the Best Actor award and Rani the best Best Actress. Last year’s huge hit Veer Zaara also won top prize for Best Film. Romantic comedy Hum Tum’s director Kunal Kohli grabbed the award for Best Director.

A big surprise winner of the night was the movie Yuva, which won the most awards- an amazing six! Followed by Hum Tum with five and Veer Zaara with four.

The full list of winners are as follow:

Best Film
Veer-Zaara

Best Director
Kunal Kohli (Hum Tum)

Best Actor
Shahrukh Khan (Swades)

Best Actress
Rani Mukherjee (Hum Tum)

Best Actor in a supporting role
Abhishek Bachchan (Yuva)

Best Actress in a supporting role
Rani Mukherjee (Yuva)

Best Performance in a comic role
Saif Ali Khan (Hum Tum)

Best Performance in a villainous role
Priyanka Chopra (Aitraaz)

Best Music
Anu Malik (Main Hoon Na)

Best Lyrics
Javed Akhtar (Tere Liye – Veer – Zaara)

Best Male Playback
Kunal Ganjawala (Bheegey Honth Tere – Murder)

Best Female Playback
Alka Yagnik (Saanso Ko Saanso Mein – Hum Tum)

R.D Burman award
Kunal Ganjawala

Life Time Achievement Award
Rajesh Khanna

Sony Scene of the Year Award
Hum Tum

Best Debutant
Ayesha Takia (Taarzan – The Wonder Car)

Best Choreography
Prabhu Deva (Main Aisa Kyon – Lakshya)

Best Movie Critics
Mani Ratnam (Yuva) & Govind Nihalani (Dev)

Best Actor Critics
Pankaj Kapoor (Maqbool)

Best Actress Critics
Kareena Kapoor (Dev)

Best Filmfare Power Award
Shahrukh Khan

Best Film Award of 50 years
Ramesh Sippy (Sholay)

Best Story
Aditya Chopra (Veer-Zaara)

Best Dialogue
Aditya Chopra (Veer-Zaara)

Best Sound Design
Yash Raj (Dhoom)

Best Screenplay
Mani Ratnam (Yuva)

Best Art Direction
Sabu Cyril (Yuva)

Best Action
Vikram Dharma (Yuva)

Best Background Score
A R Rahman (Swades)

Best Cinematography
Christopher Popp (Lakshya)

The awards, this year, celebrating their 50th year in a glittering ceremony took place at MMRDA grounds in Mumbai earlier today.

Bollywood’s best and brightest ? Dev Anand, Sharmila Tagore, Shammi Kapoor, Rekha (pictured), Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Shatrugan Sinha, Karan Johar, Farhan Akhtar, Kajol, Mahima Chowdhury, Manisha Koirala, Kareena Kapoor ? were all part of the audience thronging the venue, as were political heavyweights like Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.

The awards will be screened on Sony Entertainment Television Asia tonight at 20:00.